Steve in PA
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Three Corroded Coppers and a couple Rifleman's Buttons
This past Sunday was a beautiful day in Pennsylvania to get out outdoors with a metal detector. Chances are there won’t be another like it for months. My sister and I took advantage of the weather and to check out an old mill site I found on an 1817 map. We were able to find the foundation stones but nothing else, so we moved on to one of my well hunted sites nearby. I was able to dig three deep coppers but they were all eaten up by the harsh soil at this site. Everything from this site is in terrible condition unless it’s silver. We each also dug a 13.7 mm (cuff size) Rifleman’s button, War of 1812 era. This was my first one piece Rifleman’s button so that was kinda cool. Unfortunately the ground action removed a lot of detail from the faces. I included a picture from Albert’s book to show what they would have looked like.
This past Sunday was a beautiful day in Pennsylvania to get out outdoors with a metal detector. Chances are there won’t be another like it for months. My sister and I took advantage of the weather and to check out an old mill site I found on an 1817 map. We were able to find the foundation stones but nothing else, so we moved on to one of my well hunted sites nearby. I was able to dig three deep coppers but they were all eaten up by the harsh soil at this site. Everything from this site is in terrible condition unless it’s silver. We each also dug a 13.7 mm (cuff size) Rifleman’s button, War of 1812 era. This was my first one piece Rifleman’s button so that was kinda cool. Unfortunately the ground action removed a lot of detail from the faces. I included a picture from Albert’s book to show what they would have looked like.
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